alexandria-rae-masonWhisper

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Departure.Roads that eventually intersect after miles of traveling / Little black girls / From different worlds but somehow became a part of the others'
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Jan 11, 2016
223Open letter / Dear B / It overwhelms me to write this because this week I've been speechless. So speechless. You've witnessed this as my eyes suddenly watered because staring into your eyes showed me something I had never seen. I always knew, but after five months apart, and seeing that stare through a screen, I forgot the magic that lies behind it and the feelings it stirs in me. That stare alone reminds me of everything I've always wanted and never knew how to get, never knew what it was worth if I ever did. I've been searching for this thing forever. Anxious and needy and impatient. So I apologize to the men I never loved, because I thought maybe "love" was something you speak out loud when you crave their body or just want someone to stay around just a little longer. I mistook all of them for something only you could be, hoping that they could fill the gap I never knew was always going to be empty until you came along. But I never knew until I knew.
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Jul 17, 2015
220*tears of love and happiness / creeps in my soul, and swells my heart. / In the flesh.
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Jul 13, 2015
21532,000 feet off the ground / I've never been closer to the stars / They always told me to reach
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Jul 7, 2015
207*Media naranja* / When we were walking through the streets trying to find souvenirs, there was a store named la media naranja. *"Do you know what that means?"* / *"Orange middle? Half orange?"*
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Jun 29, 2015
195*Black born / Black careless / Black die
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Jun 16, 2015
194This is melanin and love and you can't fake this. / Mixing shades of ancestry and bloodlines and pigments that stick to the core. / Somewhere someone peeked in a black woman's ear, straight through to her mind,
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Jun 15, 2015
193*Why do you worry / When our God / Asks instead you pray?*
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Jun 14, 2015
189I wish I could write you a love song / Singing a broken melody that never could find fluidity / until
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Jun 10, 2015
UntitledIt's a sad song hearing someone lie to themselves. / Mutually excluding love and success / Making excuses that one means sacrificing the other
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Jun 9, 2015
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